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Where and what do you eat on Christmas Eve

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RevolvingPivot · 21/12/2021 14:56

Just that really.

We stay in and have a small buffet style tea with cheese and crackers etc.

I always imagine the four of us watching a film together. Truth is non of us like watching the same stuff. I'd watch anything just for us to be together.

DH (as usual) will go to bed to watch tv and either both dds will watch a bit of tv with me or they will go to their rooms to play on their phones. Might play a board game with dd9 but dd11 gets bored way too quickly.

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EssexLioness · 21/12/2021 16:57

We eat whatever we fancy. This year it is burgers, onion rings and chips. We then settle down infront of a Christmas movie and usually open the chocolates

Policyschmolicy · 21/12/2021 17:11

As children we always had a Chinese takeaway on Christmas Eve. I think it was because the tiny kitchen at home was full of Christmas Day prep.

I don’t think we have a tradition per se, normally at the whim of the in laws and when they are deciding to come, but we’ve been isolating this year following a positive test last weekend so I think on Christmas Eve we will go to the beach and eat fish and chips, so just have a light supper.

AutumnAlmanack · 21/12/2021 17:14

At home we always had roast pheasant for Christmas Eve Dinner with all the usual trimmings. My mother was a brilliant cook though, and I have tried to cook pheasant to taste the same and it never does. I think half the problem is that they are farmed nowadays and you hardly ever get ones which have been shot and left to hang properly.

Lacedwithgrace · 21/12/2021 17:23

Picky bits at home. I open the Christmas food stash and we cook and make a buffet. Nibble on it through the day while doing last minute prep and then DH and I have a cheeseboard and wine when DD goes to bed while we're sorting presents.

dierdrebarlow33 · 21/12/2021 17:24

Always party food. Usually with nice crusty bread, cheese and a ton of quality street.

LegoPandemic · 21/12/2021 17:27

Hoping to eat and drink at our lovely friends’ house, covid allowing. Kids sausage and chips, adults one of her lovely recipes (she’s an amazing cook!).
If not it will be Hm pizza and a film for the 3 of us in front of the TV.

summersolstice43 · 21/12/2021 17:29

I'll be having a ready meal for one whenever I get home for work. DD is with her dad and his family so its just me unfortunately.

JellyfishandShells · 21/12/2021 17:32

My mother used to have her delicious chicken soup ready for us after we travelled to her on Christmas Eve - have kept up the tradition as we only want something light on the day before The Grand Indulgence.
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Bunnyfuller · 21/12/2021 17:34

Fish platter type thing, at home, with lashing of fizz.

Kids (teenagers) want Dominos!

We try to watch music stuff or those ‘top 100 ….’

The100thHoliday · 21/12/2021 17:37

We’ve tried lots of different things.

When the DC were small I did a party food buffet.

Then a few years in a row we got fast food - Fish & chips, Nando's, pizza.

Last year we went out to a Thai restaurant just before the area we were in went into lockdown, which was lovely.

Not feeling inspired this year. I might go back to my Mum’s tradition when we were growing up, which was something fishy.

Marmelace · 21/12/2021 17:38

I've been dreading making Christmas Lunch this year, neuropathy and 4 days out of 7 I'm physically not up to most things, hurting, legs and arms useless and bogged down with fatigue. Got everything prepared and mostly frozen ahead to be prepared this year, rather proud of myself. My sons are making the meal on the day thankfully. We usually have picky buffet stuff on Christmas eve, but to make life easier this year we are ordering in pizzas.

lollipoprainbow · 21/12/2021 17:40

Honey sausages, sausage rolls, crisps, nuts. Usually dips and breadsticks but I can't see any nice ones this year.

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 21/12/2021 17:43

Ham in cola, jacket potatoes, savoy cabbage (and sweetcorn, at DH's insistence)

Followed by mince pies and cheese

Has been the same dinner for years and I think the family would cut up rough if I tried to change things 😉

VickyEadieofThigh · 21/12/2021 17:57

For years we've had a seafood platter with salad (we used to have nice bread with it but we gave up carb as part of meals a couple of years ago), with a nice bottle of fizz.

MeatyRvita · 21/12/2021 18:16

Kfc or McDonald’s - at home on the sofa watching the muppets Christmas carol

elliejjtiny · 21/12/2021 18:28

We have always got the dc to bed and then had a takeaway curry and watched a Christmas film. Gradually as they have started secondary school the dc have joined us.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 21/12/2021 19:06

I spend Christmas Eve doing the prep for Christmas dinner, so I never feel like cooking anything much for tea, so we have a selection of supermarket party food, that just needs logging in the oven and this year will be no different.

When the dses were smaller, we used to have a party on Christmas Eve - just some friends and their kids - and I’d do a bigger version of the supermarket party food buffet. It sounds like madness, but it wore the boys out, so they fell asleep quickly, and dh and I could do the stockings and go to bed early-ish too!

Christmasmorning519 · 21/12/2021 19:09

Scandinavian buffet . Fondue , cheese, cured meats, pickles, cured fish pickled fish, and more cheese.lots of salad . Ginger bread for pud. No idea why. Was introduced by my fabulous MIL years ago ( sadly deceased) and it’s what we do. She made our christmases amazing .

AwkwardSquad · 21/12/2021 19:22

I think we’ll make a start on the Christmas cheese - easy and delicious

Oblomov21 · 21/12/2021 19:27

We go to christingle at 3.30pm, then to the pub with 2 other families. Food and drinks. Home by 8pm. Tis my favourite
part of Christmas.

cliffdiver · 21/12/2021 19:28

Lunch will probably be fish finger sandwiches, on the sofa, watching a Christmas film.

Dinner will be fajitas, sitting at the dining room table.

OrangeBlossomsinthesun · 21/12/2021 19:35

I'm in Spain and here it's traditional to have a big family meal on the evening of Christmas Eve at home. DH really likes that and I'm not fussed about Christmas Day food so we usually do it that way round and have leftovers on Xmas day.
Not sure what we'll eat but something sort of roast like but with less work, like some kind of precooked meat and then roast potatoes and gravy and veg.

Ragwort · 21/12/2021 19:51

No real tradition- this year I will be working until 4ish (retail), DH will be collecting our DS from goodness knows where as so many trains seem to be cancelled & he is 4 hours away. I've got a nice steak pie which I might give to DH & DS when they finally arrive, I prefer not to eat too late so maybe have a sandwich earlier (cooking a ham on Thursday so we should have lots of cold ham).

IsoIsobaby20 · 21/12/2021 19:52

We always eat in a local pub on Christmas Eve. I spend the morning cleaning and prepping at home feeling all Christmassy - leave the house clean and then go the pub then to Church then home with no dishes or washing up to do. Just a christmas film and a baileys. Christmas Eve food is about ease for me - Christmas Day is for the big meal.

Chishnfips · 21/12/2021 19:54

Party food at home in front of a film.

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